Sun puts its money where its mouth is when it promised that it was "committed to driving the evolution of RFID technology and standards." The Santa Clara, Calif.-based systems company opened an RFID testing facility in Dallas.
There are plenty of tools - here's my current pick of some that could use a little more publicity, simply because they're useful to have around.
The Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI.org) recently began delivering release 1.0 of the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN 1.0), which is designed to provide a readily understandable, royalty-free notation for both business process design and business process implementation, according to the organization.
BMC Software last week agreed to acquire Marimba, a Mountain View, Calif.-based maker of change and configuration management solutions, in a cash deal valued at approximately $240 million.
Motive Inc., an Austin, Texas-based vendor of Java-based software tools for modeling, diagnosing and fixing computer problems, is moving into the J2EE market with an alliance with BEA Systems Inc. Under an agreement announced jointly by the companies this month, BEA will use Motive's modeling technology to provide self-management capabilities for WebLogic Server.
Firing the latest shot in the battle to control client side deployment costs, IBM is extending its middleware to run client side applications. IBM is releasing new versions of Lotus Workplace that will provide collaboration and lightweight productivity tools, while using server-based portal and software distribution technology to manage client deployment.
The official kickoff for J2EE 1.4, accompanied by the release of a free available J2EE Application Verification Kit (AVK), pre-announcements of J2EE 1.5, and the coming official release of the Java Studio Creator tool, is making for a busy spring at Sun Microsystems.
Malicious exploitations of Windows vulnerabilities have become such a common occurrence that Gartner is advising its Windows-using customers to plan for them in their budgets.
The question is, do you really want to read about tomorrow's software today?
Agile modeling gained some prominence a few years ago, emerging in the wake of UML, RUP and Extreme Programming. Where is it now? Few are in a better position to answer that question than Jim Highsmith, author of Adaptive Software Development, Agile Software Development Ecosystems, and a founding member of the AgileAlliance.
The W3C WS-Choreography Working Group has released the first draft of its Web Services Choreography Description Language (WS-CDL) 1.0.
In an effort to help application developers to "help themselves," Sun has released a free test kit designed to verify whether an application is J2EE-compatible.
Sybase Inc. has started shipping its Real Time Data Services (RTDS) middleware offering, described as a complete solution for real-time enterprise information management. Sybase RTDS can proactively publish and subscribe data from heterogeneous enterprise databases to messaging infrastructures, officials said.
Sun Microsystems last week marked the advent of Version 1.4 of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) at a press event in San Francisco that featured most of the big names in Java tools and application servers. A tools panel included representatives from Borland, BEA, IBM, Oracle and Sun.
Sun Microsystems marked the advent of Version 1.4 of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) last week at a press event in San Francisco that featured most of the big names in Java tools and application servers, who gathered to discuss the impact of J2EE 1.4 on their products and markets.
It's coming up on time to replace the client operating system again. Which path
will you choose for your development efforts?
Serena, a maker of mainframe-based configuration management tools, is looking to Merant's PVCS and Dimensions products to boost its place in the desktop SCM world, Serena President and CEO Mark Woodward told eADT.
Viewers suggest one of the natural focal points for compliance-related software may be business process management (BPM) tools. A look at an Ilog engine shows why.
Just how do we expect new developers to keep up with the expanding base of
knowledge in the field, anyhow?